Word: factors
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...Dole simultaneously moderate and mobilize all the parts of that unstable mixture? The crucial factor is time. Pulling yourself back from the ideological edge is a project that can take years. Just ask the Democrats. Dole has until...
Those clues are being arduously analyzed by experts at the NTSB and the FBI. One cluster of NTSB engineers is tracking the trajectories of pieces of wreckage from where they landed to where they began to fall. This is done with computers that factor in radar records, wind direction and speed, and other data. The studies will help experts determine the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the plane's destruction. Also, the sharp sound at the end of the cockpit voice recording is being analyzed in minuscule detail, with attention to the different speeds at which the vibrations...
...Star Factor: Getting a glimpse of the stars' homes is as hard as life without oxygen, but getting directions there is a piece of cake. While your rental car is being squeegeed by a helpful road-side window cleaner, you will come face to face with a Maps of the Stars' Homes stand on the corner and inevitably be offered one for sale. Hey, it beats the Tours of the Stars' Homes, given by minivan...
While swimming is considered a cleaner sport than track and field, drugs have been a factor several times in the past few years: East Germany is now known to have doped its female champions for two decades; two years ago, seven Chinese team members were surprise-tested in Japan and found positive for the same drug--dehydrotestosterone--just days after winning 12 out of 16 gold medals at the world championships in Rome. In the past decade, several U.S. swimmers have tested positive, including Angel Martino, who won two individual bronzes and two relay golds last week, after having been...
...certainly seems like Harvard's prominence would be a factor to make it more at risk, just like I would imagine MIT is at risk or the White House is at risk. The more important some institution is, the juicier it is as a target," Corey says...